Staub, Michael E. “If We Really Care About Israel: Breira and the Limits of Dissent.” In Torn at the roots the crisis of Jewish liberalism in postwar America. New York: Columbia University Press, 2002. 280-308.

Oppenheim, Carolyn Toll. “The Road To Middle East Peace.” Open House Ramle. (accessed October 12, 2011). [originally published in Polner, Murray, and Naomi Goodman, eds. The Challenge of Shalom: the Jewish tradition of peace and justice. Gabriola Island, BC: New Society Publishers, 1994.]

Note: The impact of Re-Evaluation Counseling on NJA was and continues to be a very controversial and emotional topic, one that came up in every interview I conducted and all of the informal conversations I had with NJA members– much more often than the infiltration of NJA by the crypto-fascist New Alliance Party. The NJA members that I interviewed are all people who were not members of RC or who have left RC, not a representative sampling. Nevertheless, I hope that I have offered a relatively objective perspective on this piece of NJA’s organizational history. I found the Wikipedia pages about RC and especially RC-founder Harvey Jackins to be a good source of information, including critiques. For more info, see also the official RC website and the critical website Re-evaluation Counseling Resources Site .

“Fulani and Newman, meanwhile, were becoming experts in that lost Communist art: infiltrating and taking over unsuspecting organizations. In the mid-’80s, for example, the NAP set its sights on the New Jewish Agenda (NJA), a nationwide peace coalition headquartered in New York City. According to Nan Rubin, then head of the Manhattan chapter, and Bruce Shapiro, of The Nation , NAP activists started trying to recruit NJA members into their therapy clinics, even asking them out on dates–a tactic that harkened back to the ’70s, when therapists at the Center for Change offered sex as a recruiting tool. NAP activists also overran the group’s meetings, creating chaos with endless denunciations of Zionism.”

This article is about an NJA activists experience of the lack of understanding of Jewish experience within the mostly-Christian Central American Solidarity movement. The article focuses on a political funeral for Ben Lindner, a Jewish progressive (son of Portland NJA members) who was murdered in Nicaragua by Contras in 1987.